CALL FOR PAPERS
11th Annual Midwest Association for Information Systems Conference
Milwaukee, WI
May 19-20, 2016
Conference theme: Bigger, Smarter, Safer: Game Changers for Information Systems
Organizations face a convergence of game changing technologies: big data, ubiquitous sensors and actuators combined with advanced analytics result in algorithms that can model, adapt, predict and act autonomously in a connected world. Such algorithms can approve loans, replenish inventory, trade stocks, control traffic flow, detect anomaly-based intrusions, drive cars, monitor health and administer drugs, manage energy consumption, predict crime hot spots, write news articles, and make recruitment and retrenchment decisions. The increasingly powerful role of algorithms driven by big data in both industry and government also leads to questions about security, privacy, surveillance and algorithmic accountability, among others.
This conference will explore how organizations can – and do – learn, adapt and innovate to respond more effectively, efficiently, rapidly and responsibly to changing circumstances using bigger data, smarter analytics and safer security.
The 11th Annual Midwest Association for Information Systems Conference will accept current topics on pedagogy, research and service in IS and/or IT. The conference will provide an intimate environment to facilitate the sharing of ideas and findings. MWAIS 2016 seeks to expand the information frontiers of IS and we invite submissions reflecting a plurality of perspectives on the field of IS. Submissions of an interdisciplinary nature are especially encouraged.
We will have several invited keynote speakers, panel sessions, presentation sessions, workshops, and a doctoral consortium. There will be speakers from academia, industry and government from across the Midwest region and beyond.
We are interested in a variety of topics that include, but are not limited to:
* Accounting information systems
* Adoption and diffusion of IT
* Artificial intelligence
* Business intelligence, analytics, big data and data science
* Business continuity
* Business/IT alignment
* Business processes
* Computer/information ethics
* Community, development and social informatics
* Database management technologies
* Data curation and preservation
* Data warehousing
* Decision support systems
* Design science
* eBusiness and eCommerce
* eGovernment
* Economics of IS/IT
* Employability of IS/IT graduates
* IS education, curriculum and teaching cases
* Enterprise architecture
* Enterprise systems
* Frugal innovation
* Global IS/IT / Outsourcing
* Green computing and sustainability
* History of IS/IT
* Healthcare informatics
* Human-computer interaction
* Information needs, seeking behavior and use
* Information organization and retrieval
* Information policy
* Information security, assurance and privacy
* Interaction design
* IS philosophy
* IT service management
* Knowledge management
* Legal aspects of IS/IT
* Open innovation
* Project management
* Research methods in IS/IT
* Social computing
* Socio-technical issues and digital inclusion
* Strategic IS/IT management
* Systems analysis and design
* Virtual communities and collaboration
* Web and mobile development
* Any other IT/IS related topic
Completed research and research in progress papers as well as panel, workshop and tutorials proposals are invited from all regions, and from both academia and practice. All submitted papers and proposals will undergo a double-blind peer review.
BEST PAPER AWARDS: The MWAIS 2015 program committee will nominate three papers for best paper awards, sponsored by the MWAIS. The three best papers will be recognized at the conference. The first best paper award is $300, second best paper award is $200, third best paper award is $100. The awards are given to the authors upon the final acceptance of their work by the Journal of the Midwest Association for Information Systems
STUDENT SUPPORT: MWAIS will waive the registration fee for students whose papers are accepted and who will be presenting at the conference (one student per paper).
IMPORTANT DATES
+ Submissions open: January 4, 2016
+ Submission deadline for full-length papers, research-in-progress, panels, workshops and tutorial proposals: Monday, February 22, 2016 at 11:59 PM CST
+ Notification of acceptance: Around Friday, April 8, 2016
+ Author registration deadline: Friday, April 15, 2016
+ Camera Ready Copy deadline: Friday, April 15, 2016 at 11:59 PM CDT
+ Conference: May 18 – 19, 2016
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
All submissions should be submitted electronically in MS Word at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mwais2016. Please refer to the conference website for details including a paper template at http://www.uwm.edu/sois/mwais2016/.
PROGRAM CHAIRS
Gaurav Bansal, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
Jeff Merhout, Miami University